IMPORTANT WARNING: Hydroxyurea can cause a severe decrease in the number of blood cells in your bone marrow. This may cause certain symptoms and may increase the risk that you will develop a serious infection or bleeding.
Stage IV colon cancer commonly spreads to the liver or the lungs. Some patients who have cancer that has spread to a single area are candidates for surgery to remove the metastases. Treatment of the liver: When itâs possible to completely surgically remove all liver metastases, surgery is the preferred treatment.
The best treatment for primary liver cancer is to remove it surgically. Unfortunately, that is seldom possible; in fact, fewer than 10% of patients are suitable for surgery. This may be because the liver function is too poor due to cirrhosis for the patient to go through surgery safely or because there are several tumors that are too widespread to remove them all.